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The British Comedy Quiz

Quiz 201

It's time to bring some fresh question setters into the fold. First up: message board regular Alfred J Kipper. He's written these great questions for us. Thanks Alfred! See how you get on...

1. Which of these actors' characters in Upstart Crow historically coined the titular epithet?

Upstart Crow. Image shows from L to R: Bottom (Rob Rouse), Kate (Gemma Whelan), Burbage (Steve Speirs), Marlowe (Tim Downie), Will Shakespeare (David Mitchell), Condell (Dominic Coleman), Sir Robert Greene (Mark Heap), Kempe (Spencer Jones), Lucy (Jocelyn Jee Esien), Morley (Noel Fielding). Copyright: BBC

2. Cosgrove Hall was...

3. In which of his film characters' voices did Peter Sellers record a comedy rendition of The Beatles' She Loves You?

Peter Sellers. Copyright: BBC

4. 'Tulip', 'Jackdaw' and 'Navy Rum' were each single episode characters in which sitcom?

5. In Citizen Smith, Wolfie Smith supported which football team?

Citizen Smith. Wolfie Smith (Robert Lindsay). Copyright: BBC

6. Which sitcom featured pub 'The Archer'?

7. Who played the green clad 'Envy' in the 1967 film Bedazzled?

8. Name the Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch.

Not The Nine O'Clock News. Image shows from L to R: Mel Smith, Pamela Stephenson, Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones

9. Which of these shows' lead stars did NOT already have a career as a pop singer?

10. What was Channel 4's first sitcom?

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